Spring Week Resume Critique
Hi everyone,
I'm applying to IBD spring weeks in London and would love some CV feedback. I was very fortunate to be able to found a society before uni starts because of my uni's quirky club registration procedures. Also heard from many people that it's commonplace to predict yourself a First even before school starts so decided to do it lmfao. Any comments on things like wording, formatting, and overall CV strength would be highly appreciated.
Formatting at the bottom is weird as fuck. "First ever pre-university" is a really weird way of starting a sentence. You need more ECs; candidates with good work experience get regularly fucked over during spring recruiting; probably because diversity and randomness is a huge factor for spring weeks but you need to come across as an interesting person. They're insight events.
Awesome, thank you so much for the feedback and I will definitely keep all of those things in mind! Unfortunately, the finance clubs in my school start recruiting in October so it's a bit too late for my spring cv even if i'm lucky enough to get into any haha.
I didn't mean finance clubs; i meant any sports teams or volunteering.
God, really wish people would stop sanitizing their CVs so much. Just say the university, languages, cities etc! It's kind of important!
I think in this case there are really only 2 countries it could be (SG or HK) so he probably wants plausible deniability.
You "coordinated" with the CEO and "presented" to management when you were what, 15?? If I were some HR person in charge of screening through SW CVs this one would scream out to me as a). nepotism or b). full of lies; probably the former. Binned.
Thanks for your insight - I'll definitely take that into consideration. I'm from Southeast Asia and SMEs here actually entrust their interns with a lot of responsibility and encourage interactions with the upper echelons of management.
Saying that you "Coordinated with ... CEO to launch technology retail subsidiary" surely must be a massive stretch? I've also heard it's best for the interests to be non-academic so you don't seem boring - they also already know you're interested in those things due to the humanitarian org
Thanks for your feedback - will definitely work on fixing that!
remove address from your CV, its not a thing we do in the UK
I included it and did just fine- dont think it is an instant ding if you do it since people around Europe apply.
its not a ding, its just that it is a waste of 1 line if space is an issue
I would remove SAT. It makes it seem like you failed to get offers from US targets.
Not true. I got a summer internship at BofA London and was told my high SAT score played a role
What is this mentality that US > UK?
US is > UK, mentality is called accepting reality.
I don't know what you got on SAT and honestly I don't care, Spring weeks aren't a dick measuring contest in the sense of intelligence. They are attempts to measure cultural fit and to try and develop recruitment pipeline early (that is why URM is so far over represented).
I would personally wonder why you'd waste the time and money on SATs if you'd have prefered to go to the UK anyway - I'd probably rather see the A-level/IB subjects but even then I don't think I'd really care.
How did you center you name and adress, Iam also using the WSO template and it’s really tricky because of the spreadsheet…
pls help me
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